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Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As night falls in the City of Belgium, three strangers in their late twenties-a most dangerous age-arrive at a popular restaurant. Jona is about to move away; he calls his wife, who's already settled in Berlin, before trying to make plans with friends for one last night on the town. No one bites-they're all busy or maybe they just don't want to party-but he's determined to make this night something to remember. Victoria is lively and energetic, but...
2) Breakwater
Author
Publisher
Avery Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A loner and introvert, Chris has drifted through her job in the cinema for years, when Dan joins and gradually becomes part of her life. But as they grow closer, she must decide if the solitary life she's built is the one she's actually most suited to after all.
"On the South coast of England, in an old art deco picture house, Chris finds a new friend ... then has to decide if she has room in her life for one. A loner and an introvert, Chris has...
3) Kafka
Author
Series
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nine of Franz Kafka's most memorable tales are here given fresh life with dazzling graphic renderings by the brother-and sister manga creators Nishioka Kyōdai. With their distinctive, surreal style of illustration, they have reimagined the fantastic, the imperceptible and the bizarre in Kafka's work, creating a hauntingly powerful visual world. These stories of enigmatic figures and uncanny transformations are stripped to their core, offering profound...
4) Acting class
Author
Publisher
published in Canada by Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Raincoast Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina. "Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." --John Smith, acting coach. From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jason Adam Katzenstein is just trying to live his life, but he keeps getting sidetracked by his over-active, anxious brain. Mundane events like shaking hands or sharing a drink snowball into absolute catastrophes. Jason has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a mental illness that compels him to perform rituals in order to protect himself from dangers that don't really exist. He checks, washes, over-thinks, rinse, repeat. He does his best to hide his...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a little--and the shapes of things are not firm but fuzzy....
Author
Series
Man and his cat volume 7
Publisher
Square Enix, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Geoffroy, a former piano prodigy, arrives in Japan with a chip on his shoulder and Mr. Kanda in his sights! Bitter that his beloved father, renowned pianist Gustave Lambert, will acknowledge no one but Fuyuki Kanda--not even his own son--Geoffroy aims to become Mr. Kanda himself by stealing his talents! Can a boxful of kittens and Mr. Kanda's kindness soothe Geoffroy's wounded heart?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing...
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart. Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it. Nothing is going according to plan, and his trip gradually turns into a nightmare. But now the police want to ask him some questions about a mysterious disappearance, and it seems...
10) The swamp
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge's fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan. These mesmerizing comics, like those of his contemporary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, reveal a gritty, at times desperate postwar Japan, while displaying...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Overview: A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante' s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples....
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"J. Torres and Elbert Or celebrate 10 years of Lola: A Ghost Story, the critically-acclaimed graphic novel that explores family, grief and Filipino folklore in an all-new edition that includes a revised ending and updated illustrations. Jesse didn't really know his Lola (the Tagalog word for grandmother), but he remembers that she tried to drown him as a baby. Strange stories surround Lola: she had visions, she fought off monsters straight out of...
Author
Series
Man and his cat volume 8
Publisher
Square Enix Manga
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rival pianist Geoffroy and five kittens have taken up residence at Mr. Kanda's house, and things are livelier than ever. But when an outrageous young woman who claims to be Mr. Kanda's daughter comes calling, Geoffroy is bewildered and has no one to turn to with Mr. Kanda away. What will become of Geoffroy when a visiting Hibino joins the fray, and cats and (found) family collide?"--
14) No longer human
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.' Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm in arm with death. Osamu Dazai's immortal, and supposedly autobiographical work...
15) Red flowers
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Yoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behind, taking a light, humorous approach in these stories based on his own travels. Red Flowers ranges from deep character studies to personal reflections to ensemble comedies set in the hotels and bathhouses of rural Japan. There are irascible old men, drunken gangsters, reflective psychiatric-hospital escapees, and mysterious dogs. Tsuge's stories are mischievous and tender even as they explore complex...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of Charisma, a Black high school student grappling with mounting pressures from home and school, and when frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, she reaches a crossroads, facing a choice that could change her future.
Author
Series
Blood on the tracks volume 3
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Seiichi's family begins to fall apart in the wake of his cousin's accident, but nothing compares to the mental and emotional torture he undergoes as he tries to maintain some sense of self in the face of his mother's manipulations. Torn by his love for her, Seiichi is pushed to the breaking point and finds himself unable to speak, both literally and figuratively."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Blood on the tracks volume 4
Publisher
Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This is a story of a mother's love that has gone too far... Unable to process the horrifying events of the past few months, Seiichi's anger, fear and frustration boil over. But even as he is haunted by the memory of his mother's hands around his throat, he finds his voice again thanks to his classmate...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Deciding a new haircut will give her the boost she needs, Karen is devastated when the hairstylist cuts her hair all wrong and wonders if she will ever get back to feeling like her usual confident self.
20) Tender
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family--but her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing.
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